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Luren Dudley Dickinson, the Governor of Michigan, balanced himself on a milk stool on the lawn of his capitol at Lansing one afternoon last week, milking Miss Ormsby, a Holstein cow. The occasion: National Milk Week. Suddenly His Excellency shifted his seat, toppled off his perch. Unless Luren Dickinson, aged 80, abandoned one of his cardinal tenets as he sprawled on the grass, he prayed...
...Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced 995.9 lbs. in the same time. Proud Jersey cattle-clubmen pointed out that the Holstein was milked four times a day; Lorna, three...
...Holstein, Iowa...
...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
...went into his barn, he found that during the night Alta Clover, without assistance, had given birth to sextuplets: five heifers and one bull-four spotted black and white and two nearly all white, all six fully developed, healthy. Stunned, Dairyman Poth put them with a Guernsey and another Holstein to help the mother nurse her herd...